From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 31 00:31:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E061065670 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:31:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A19E8FC1D for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so5217240eyf.13 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:31:28 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.11.147 with SMTP id 19mr10982787eex.14.1293755488107; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:31:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.124.148 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:31:28 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [64.81.163.112] In-Reply-To: References: <4d1c6625.MZdwaEoGnhqNcfOP%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:31:28 -0800 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Portmaster general questions and problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:31:29 -0000 On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Warren Block wrote: > Those look backwards to me. =A0It's extremely rare for me to upgrade > everything that a given port depends on (-R), but common to upgrade a por= t > and everything that depends on it (-r). I've used -R before to correct situations where a freshly built port misbehaves due to some of its dependencies being too old. It's also sometimes handy when there are ABI changes involved, as sometimes happens with things like Perl and PHP.